ebooks retard? yes/no?

non-consumer hardware represents ~15% of @ycombinator W26 hard-tech is back. spacetech: @axionorbital - Foundation models for 24/7 Earth Observation @constspace - AI for space mission assurance @gru_space - Building the first hotel on the Moon @KytenTech - Custom battery

don't wait too long - this week might be your last chance to enjoy these jokes while they're still at least 10% funny

scale ai for robotics lol @tryasimov

some cool consumer apps in the recent w26 @PaxHistoria prana doc fort more on: https://t.co/m9JJHkNBgU my bet on pax

flew economy and business class on the same trip in econ my seatmates were watching the bourne identity and joker on tiny screens in business class the guy next to me had a massive screen and chose to watch a documentary about pigs hunting for truffles that’s the

New study from China found prolonged Bluetooth headset use strongly linked to thyroid nodules. OpenAI & Jony Ive are now building earbuds that sit directly in your ear canal 24/7. The closer EMF is to your thyroid, the worse. This is not going to end well.

vc money is effectively legitimizing the gray hat stack because "agents" need it (and most of the time operate against tos). companies are betting big that "it's not scraping if an agent does it". ask forgiveness rather than permission?

watching the rebrand of gray hat software into "ai-native infrastructure" . tech stack hasn't changed. valuation multiples have. - "gtm data platform" = linkedin scraper - "ai sdr" = mass account automation - "agentic browser infra" = anti-detect browsers + rotating proxies

vendor red-flag checklist for early-stage AI: "we can’t disclose the architecture for IP reasons.” translation: “we don’t know what the architecture is because the engineer who built it left.”

here's how we're designing PLG at Extruct the thesis: turn product usage into multi-persona, multi-channel engagement.

to sound more human when doing outreach, always outsell "regards" with "regrads"

past 2 years I said never keep your landing page in the codebase. in https://t.co/IQyuWsqHKc days it slowed us down. webflow let GTM move fast. now I think opposite: with Cursor, keeping it in the product repo makes the product → landing loop faster. webflow & co slow it down

there’s a certain symmetry to it. the two most talked-about stories in SV lately were a guy scamming fancy startups, and a founder of a fancy startup ripping off his own employees out of their equity by joining the big tech.

next level of seniority: you starting booking a flight ticket not through an aggregator but on a company site

always amazed how good @SoundCloud is with almost 0 product improvements over the last 5 years

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funny that "thinking" became a new "building" in coding for me

Last week, I analyzed Series A rounds across emerging markets over the past decade. The median time from Seed to Series A across all EM is approximately 32 months. That’s slightly longer than in the U.S., where startups typically hit Series A in 25 to 28 months. What’s more

to-do list but with ai agents. anyone is working on that?